CA
absent-sapphire
Test Residential Proxy with CURL
Hi!
I'm trying out Apify's residential proxy under the free plan. I'm currently building a LinkedIn Scraper for my customers, so I wanted to use Apify's proxy to reduce the risk of being banned.
I wanted to have a quick try to see if I can directly use Apify's residential proxy in my code (running on an EC2 instance) to access LinkedIn. Here's the command line that I ran:
curl 'https://www.linkedin.com' -x 'http://groups-RESIDENTIAL:[email protected]:8000'
However, I got a error "curl: (56) CONNECT tunnel failed, response 403"
I searched around the Discord server, and it seems like it's because the plan that I have is a free plan. Therefore the residential proxy is only available to be used on Apify platform/cloud. My question is - if I upgrade my plan to Starter, will I be able to use Apify's residential proxy in my own servers? Or will I still have to run the code on Apify's cloud?
1 Reply
harsh-harlequin•2y ago
Residential proxy is available for all plan so upgrade won't help. Blocking is not just about proxy, see https://docs.apify.com/academy/anti-scraping
Anti-scraping protections | Academy | Apify Documentation
Understand the various anti-scraping measures different sites use to prevent bots from accessing them, and how to appear more human to fix these issues.